We were talking conservation easement
restrictions, all the rules for a cash
injection to hold the ranch together
into the future, terms and acronyms
for multisyllabic concepts applied
to ground grazed for a century
and a half, nice young girl and I,
when the deal broke over cordwood,
dead-standing Blue Oaks for our woodstove—
peckerwood in perpetuity. My good
intentions shot full of holes,
I am relieved with each one I see.
drycrikjournal 